Exposure Therapy: Processing My Past uses staged self-portraiture to explore formative memories and experiences. The project revisits childhood through reconstructed scenes drawn from significant moments, emphasizing process within conceptual execution. Using creative freedom in self-portraiture, it engages directly with vulnerability and performance, treating the camera as a tool for communication and understanding. The project integrates photography with a variety of other self-directed therapeutic practices, such as yoga, journaling, personal study, and vows of silence. Through this, photography is approached as a reflective and therapeutic practice, allowing the act of image making to serve as a means of processing and examining personal experiences.

Each image transforms multiple memories into a tangible visual form, using photography to make internal experiences physically present. By focusing on process and vulnerability, the project examines how photography can convey personal memory and emotion while acknowledging its limitations in fully capturing and communicating lived experiences..